XBox version of Amiibos?

Saeleth · Aug 23, 2018

What is this in regards to? Game ideas?
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Basically Microsoft's answer to the Amiibo and Totaku craze. Plenty of games to pull from for figures players would gladly buy

AdamKronus · Aug 23, 2018

I'm not much of a fan, but I believe that more options will always be the best choice for players.

brandiesel1 · Aug 23, 2018

Nothing that I would have an interest in.

cbander0918 · Aug 23, 2018

Closest I can think of are the Disney Infinity characters.

matthewiag · Aug 23, 2018

That would actual be quite good

Tormaz · Aug 24, 2018

I've never been keen on Amiibo idea in the first place, because I'm personally not a fan of little plastic statues that sit on a shelf and collect dust. Color me cynical, but I see their function as nothing more than a way to sell you access to on-disk content.
The content that gets unlocked in Amiibo-enabled games couldn't be unlocked through normal play.

There's that, and the fact that Amiibos are subject to terrible amounts of scalping around game releases. Around the time the Switch released in March 2017, the online market drove up prices of any Zelda-related Amiibo at $50-100 each for the BotW launch --
all these figures did was drop a chest with random loot once a day, and the chest might have a piece of armor you couldn't find anywhere else in the game. Local stores were either completely cleaned out by resellers, or if they had any in stock, they'd follow
suit with the overpricing. Supply chains were typically choked for high-profile releases.

If it's DLC you want, the Microsoft Store always has readily available for you. If it's action figures or statues you want, I know that most of those franchises listed above (Halo, Gears, Walking Dead, etc) have already licensed their characters to various
toy companies. I see them all the time in comic book stores, Target, and Walmart. There's also the endless arrays of Funko figures, which probably has every IP license on the planet maybe.

That's just my take on "Xbox Amiibos". Now, if we could get physical, custom figures of our own Xbox avatars... that would be
NEAT.
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The first paragraph is my exact sentiments. I have a Wii and didn't want Amiibos for it. That being said I'm now 100% on board if you could get custom Xbox Avatar ones.

Ambassador Kingz · Nov 2, 2018

Funko Pops will just handle this for Xbox.

Julian_

Good news! It's confirmed one of Microsoft first or second party studios (don't remember which one) is working on some kind of toys-to-life game.

I'm pretty excited for this, just hoping the gameplay will offer a little more compared to games like Disney
Infinity.

cbander0918

Closest I can think of are the Disney Infinity characters.

banky71

I guess it could be okay if done right. I don't think I'd be too excited about if it does happen.

EquableVoyage40

I personally am not a fan of the whole amiibo thing but there could definitely be a market for it.

Tormaz

I've never been keen on Amiibo idea in the first place, because I'm personally not a fan of little plastic statues that sit on a shelf and collect dust. Color me cynical, but I see their function as nothing more than a way to sell you access to on-disk content.
The content that gets unlocked in Amiibo-enabled games couldn't be unlocked through normal play.

There's that, and the fact that Amiibos are subject to terrible amounts of scalping around game releases. Around the time the Switch released in March 2017, the online market drove up prices of any Zelda-related Amiibo at $50-100 each for the BotW launch --
all these figures did was drop a chest with random loot once a day, and the chest might have a piece of armor you couldn't find anywhere else in the game. Local stores were either completely cleaned out by resellers, or if they had any in stock, they'd follow
suit with the overpricing. Supply chains were typically choked for high-profile releases.

If it's DLC you want, the Microsoft Store always has readily available for you. If it's action figures or statues you want, I know that most of those franchises listed above (Halo, Gears, Walking Dead, etc) have already licensed their characters to various
toy companies. I see them all the time in comic book stores, Target, and Walmart. There's also the endless arrays of Funko figures, which probably has every IP license on the planet maybe.

That's just my take on "Xbox Amiibos". Now, if we could get physical, custom figures of our own Xbox avatars... that would be
NEAT.

The first paragraph is my exact sentiments. I have a Wii and didn't want Amiibos for it. That being said I'm now 100% on board if you could get custom Xbox Avatar ones.

XBox version of Amiibos?